Recipe: Broccoli Soup

Warm up on a cold winter day and get all the healthy benefits of green vegetables with this Broccoli soup!  Please pardon the constant use of estimating – I seriously made this up on the fly at lunch one day when everyone was down and out with colds.  The final verdict though? A hit!

Ingredients:

4 cups vegetable or chicken broth (I had homemade turkey broth)

2 heads of broccoli

1 small onion, chopped

1 clove garlic, chopped

1 cup cream

Olive oil

Cheddar cheese (sharp, old preferred)

Directions:

1-In soup pot, add a few tablespoons of olive oil and the onions.  When onions are becoming translucent, add garlic.

2-Add broth until heated through.  Add cream and broccoli.

3-Continue heating with lid on, until broccoli is very soft. Let cool a bit.

4-Using hand blender (or, a full blender for a smoother puree), blend until creamy (add stock if it’s too thick).

5-Season with salt and pepper to taste (optional).

6-Serve with grated cheese on top.

We also ate it with corn bread muffins (PC Organics pre-mix has few ingredients, all of which I can pronounce! Very easy to make).

Enjoy 😉